and hooks encircling movements, and the one-two punch combination sums up his basic theory of warfare. He has a quiet, pleasant voice, and a good, puckish Irish smile frequently lights up his craggy face when he is with friends. Most enlisted men find his ap- pearance reassuringly tough. They like to see him on the battlefield, but they are content to stay out of his way when no operations are in progress. Once, during the fighting in Oran against the local French division, which had taken literal- ly the Vichy orders to resist, he came upon a group of his soldiers who had been brought to a standstill by shellfire. "Get off your dead ends and quit muck- ing around or you'll be killed," he said, and one soldier yelled, "O.K., Terry!" lrhat was perhaps the only time in Allen's ca- reer as an officer that an enlisted man has called him by his first name. He sometimes cites this as an instance of the mad things men do in the stress of battle. Allen was born at Fort Douglas, in what was then the Territory of Utah, on April 1, 1888. His father, Colo- nel Samuel Edward Allen, was an artillery officer and his mother, whose maiden name was Conchita de la Mesa, was the daugh- ter of Carlos de la Me- sa, a Spaniard who had served as a colonel in the Union Army in the Civil War. lrerry is not a contraction of T er- ence but the surname of a branch of his fa- ther's side of the family. His boyhood was spent at Army posts, mostly in Texas, and he con- siders himself more a Texan than anything else. His father had the old Army sense of dig- nity. The General re- members that the elder Allen, while he was still a captain, would refuse to have a telephone in his house at a post, be- cause, he said, "I don't want to telephone my seniors and I won't ha ve my juniors calling me." When Captain Allen wanted to communicate with men of his battery, he stood on the porch of his house and yelled. At the post Allen remembers best the battery lived in barracks a cou- ple of hundred yards from the Captain's home, and a non-com was always sta- tioned in front of the barracks to watch for the Captain and run over to him to get instructions whenever he came out- doors. Probably the most active phase of Allen's youth was during the period in which his father commanded a battery of field artillery and young Terry asso- ciated almost exclusively with enlisted men, who taught him to smoke, drink, chew tobacco, and reckon odds in games of chance. The General's favorite rem- iniscence concerns meeting the son of 23 another officer on the reservation and discovering that he was crying. Allen asked him what the matter was. "My mother spanked me," the boy said. "Why?" Allen asked. " F 1 . . I " h h or paYIng WIt 1 you, t e oy an- swered. The General says, "My opinion of myself went up like a rocket." Not long ago Allen pinned a deco- ration on a captain of field artillery whose father had been a sergeant In the Regular Army. "Nobody can say we haven't got real democracy when a ser- geant's son can become a commissioned officer," the General said with emotion. That a family could span such a gap in one generation seemed to him as re- :%::' ;;:\:,: :::.-;. *"t -.. . '.:\V .. :..'t :}t. ':r :; ,:: "N.":" :::-:-.::::- ..;:,/)\ 7 f:: :'J:.:' ;j,' Þ ":'" ....f.. .... ... \ .:; ::<<. . :: :;?l'- :. :<.:< . . :éi. . ;!! . .;; . :. , ) (: ,., :4: r f., " . :f ;, ;::,:,, , .....;.: -Jt' :-ti:: , 'f:::::; :: ;;;::/': :'\ W ;::: :; >;: )Hii: ';{. .: :: :::: :{:,)t)i::: :: ßf:. ; ,if,> .,:: i:M.4Zþf! ".::: . )i' ::;: ::::- :::' .. .::., .-::::: ?,:.r: "'. < ii , )4.. ........ ..' .:::; 3Ú }+\:,> ., : .... ';r.' ..... ....í. '! "; î\tt , :N n,i · m %./. ':'.:::i\(: t\c..x tr. ;i: : ,::..:t :: . .: ; ;! ::: ::;:..:. . ,.:: ./ : : ' '::. '::-' ". 4:,'- .N:.;..' .:. ... . \ i:.'ì;':':.':.'."::".:';'::';:;':" " ' ..'::::';.:.: ' . i "..:' ..: t;:.. :: .... -:::> ,...:::... ::::-:,..::. ,- .:- ..... ,.: ..,.,.,fj.: -. ::s::. ) ;;;:,. . iî , rfv ?d1 .r' ::::.:::- :'::: '. ::::i:; ì t.; 1 _ ":):f:;:' :;l . :::::.., ",::.: ji: -;::; :: ,: î"\;' }it,: ,.... :':-:'- . , ,.. ,--",, '" ,,:::" ',,:, ' '" '. ...,. ..::: ï ....-..t,..:J ': g}-t....: . .......... :. ....... ..x; ..':..' :.... ::.' ::.::: . .:.: ',,::: .:.:....:::;.:::. ;:::::'..,:.;0',:, ::::::"'::::: rit .' '. r :::\ ? \ r t -:.":':::::,;,.. -'--:-. '.:,:.:..:-: t:i?:/!:::::': .:'( ',:.:- ':.:-;, :':::::,:;:-. ':....l .....) f . "':..:,,<:>. . '::'::.: :;: . ..-:-: :'f j)' . . ..:.t;{::.-._ 1 t L: :'. :, : ......,; :'-.. '::-. '. .-.> :.:'.' , }y:f/ : >::'-jy %vk" ;:;!i;: rl !it:.,. "" 1t; ,:J!r :.; - . . :'.::"::::' ... .;' :If;'",, t%...t:::::"'-" "Any tirrte they start a ptcture this way you can count on trouble."